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Hello darkness my old friend
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I've come to talk with you again
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Because a vision softly creeping
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Left its seeds while I was sleeping
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And the vision that was planted in my brain
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Within the sound of silence.
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In restless dreams I walked alone
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Narrow streets of cobblestone
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'Neath the halo of a street lamp
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I turned my collar to the cold and damp
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When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
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And touched the sound of silence.
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And in the naked light I saw
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Ten thousand people, maybe more.
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People talking without speaking
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People hearing without listening
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People writing songs that voices never share
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Disturb the sound of silence.
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"Fools," said I, "You do not know –
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Silence like a cancer grows.
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Hear my words that I might teach you
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Take my arms that I might reach you."
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But my words like silent raindrops fell
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And echoed in the wells of silence